Heather McAdams Movies

  • 1991
    Meet Bradley Harrison Picklesimer

    Meet Bradley Harrison Picklesimer

    Meet Bradley Harrison Picklesimer

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    A portrait film about a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own club on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

    Meet Bradley Harrison Picklesimer
  • 1986
    Better Be Careful

    Better Be Careful

    Better Be Careful

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    The zany and the funny facets of American popular culture.

    Better Be Careful
  • 1997
    Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone

    Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone

    Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone

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    Experimental mash-up of circus and sideshow footage.

    Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone
  • 1985
    Fake Previews

    Fake Previews

    Fake Previews

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    The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called...

    Fake Previews
  • 1985
    Black Coffee

    Black Coffee

    Black Coffee

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    This film started out as a sort of music video to a wonderful old song by Pat Suzuki (also known as 'Miss Ponytail'). The song is called Black...

    Black Coffee
  • 1979
    We Hope You Enjoy This Film

    We Hope You Enjoy This Film

    We Hope You Enjoy This Film

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    This film is a good example of 'wrong' picture/sound juxtapositions. Uncanny collisions and combinations of sound and picture make this film one of...

    We Hope You Enjoy This Film
  • 1989
    Fetal Pig Anatomy

    Fetal Pig Anatomy

    Fetal Pig Anatomy

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    Apocalyptic experimental film incorporating found footage, including from the 1962 educational film of the same name.

    Fetal Pig Anatomy
  • 1990
    Hey Girls

    Hey Girls

    Hey Girls

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    Based on a comic Heather McAdams created for the Chicago Reader, the short comedic film was made by Tom Palazzolo's 1990 film production class at the...

    Hey Girls
  • 1993
    The Lester Film

    The Lester Film

    The Lester Film

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    A documentary profile of Lester Brodzik and his alter ego Lestushka

    The Lester Film
  • 1983
    All Fucked Up

    All Fucked Up

    All Fucked Up

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    A caustic send-up of adolescent anxiety, as seen through a barrage of clips from sex ed and social hygiene films of the 1950s and '60s.

    All Fucked Up
  • 1983
    You

    You

    You

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    A teenage projectionist's fever dream.

    You
  • 1980
    The Scratchman

    The Scratchman

    The Scratchman

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    Scratched lines and shapes float around this footage of a military spokesperson

    The Scratchman
  • 1982
    Scratchman II

    Scratchman II

    Scratchman II

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    Scratched lines and shapes bloat around this footage of an unknown businessman, sometimes forming hats, clown noses, arrows, etc. He becomes a kind...

    Scratchman II
  • 1990
    Mr. Glenn W. Turner

    Mr. Glenn W. Turner

    Mr. Glenn W. Turner

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    This film is made out of found footage and stuff that I shot. It starts out like a real documentary and gets increasingly more absurd. Probably good...

    Mr. Glenn W. Turner
  • 1985
    Holiday Magic

    Holiday Magic

    Holiday Magic

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    "Inspired by a record to help women with beauty problems. I tried dubbing the voice of the man on the record into the mouth of some fat dude in a...

    Holiday Magic